Improving health care by inspiring a balanced exchange of evidence, experience, and perspectives.

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The Alliance for Health Policy is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to helping policymakers and the public better understand health policy, the root of the nation’s health care issues, and the trade-offs posed by various proposals for change.

We believe a better health care system begins with a balanced exchange of evidence, experience, and multiple perspectives.

Signature Series

Courageous Conversations. Innovative Events.

The annual Signature Series addresses challenging issues in health policy by convening cross-sector dialogue with experts in both policy and practice. Together, we critically examine and identify what’s at stake, as well as key areas of opportunity. 

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The Alliance serves as a trusted resource, empowering current and future health policy leaders to improve the nation’s health care system by advancing their understanding of the issues that matter and by convening them in solutions-focused conversations.

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2026 Health Policy Forecast Symposium and Reception

Join the Alliance for Health Policy for the 2026 Health Policy Forecast Symposium, a forward-looking event that brings together leading voices to explore the forces shaping health care in the year ahead. Following the 2026 midterm elections, the Symposium will convene top health care experts, former Congressional and Administration leaders,…
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Medicare Fraud: Policy Resources, Roles, and Realities

Medicare Fraud: Policy Resources, Roles, and Realities Medicare fraud is receiving growing attention, but for policymakers, the challenge is not just identifying the problem; it is understanding what can be done, who can do it, and which tools are already available. This webinar will give congressional staff a practical view…
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2026 Signature Series Congressional Briefing

MACRA: Perspectives on What Worked in the 2015 Reform, What’s Missing, and Why It Matters Today The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) was enacted in 2015, repealing the Sustainable Growth Rate formula and establishing a new framework for Medicare physician payment. As Congress revisits the Medicare Physician Fee…
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Health Insurance Fundamentals: How the U.S. System Really Works

  Health insurance touches nearly every American, yet it remains one of the most misunderstood areas of health policy. The U.S. health insurance system is not a single, unified structure; it is a collection of distinct markets, each operating under its own rules, regulators, and incentives. Alliance audience research shows…
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2026 Signature Series Summit on Health Care Payment

2026 Signature Series Summit on Health Care Payment: Where We Are, Where We Are Going How we pay for health care shapes what care gets delivered, to whom, and at what cost. Yet the payment conversation in Washington often moves faster than the understanding behind it. The 2026 Signature Series…
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5 Questions to Ask in Your Next Health Care Payment Conversation

Event Description Health care payment is not a single system, instead, it is a set of interconnected structures across drug, physician/provider, and hospital domains, each with its own logic, incentives, and players. When it comes to jurisdiction in Congress and the administration, it can seem even more complex. Through deep…
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2026 Health Policy Academy

Event Overview Health Policy Academy is the Alliance for Health Policy’s annual in-person, bootcamp-style event held exclusively for current congressional and federal agency staff. For more than 30 years, the Academy has helped generations of staffers better navigate the fundamentals of health policy and the policymaking process.  This full-day bootcamp…
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Policymakers

Members of Congress, Congressional and agency staff, federal, state, and local legislators.

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Health Care Stakeholders

Industry stakeholders, practitioners and providers, patient advocates, community organizations, academics.

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Media

Members of the press, journalists, public relations professionals.

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The Alliance takes a “listening first” approach, gathering insights from the health policy community and health care stakeholders to clarify and synthesize current issues and create a forum for dialogue to advance the conversation for improving health and health care in the United States.

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Health Care Costs

Health care costs can be defined in three ways: 1) the expense incurred by providers in the delivery of health care services 2) the amount that is paid for services rendered by private and public payers; and 3) out-of-pocket patient spending for health care services.

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Medicaid & CHIP

Medicaid provides health coverage to millions of Americans, including eligible low-income adults, children, pregnant women, elderly adults and people with disabilities.The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) provides health coverage to eligible children, through both Medicaid and separate CHIP programs. CHIP is administered by states, according to federal requirements. Both programs are funded jointly by states and the federal government.

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Medicare

A health insurance program for aged persons designed to complement the retirement, survivors, and disability insurance benefits under Title II of the Social Security Act. It covers most persons aged 65 and over.

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Health Policy Handbook

An introduction to the health policy and health care ecosystem

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The Alliance for Health Policy Remembers Founder Sen. Jay Rockefeller

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:November 12, 2026 The Alliance for Health Policy Remembers Founder Sen. Jay Rockefeller – Sen. Rockefeller co-founded the Alliance in 1991 with Sen. Jack Danforth as a nonpartisan forum for health policy education—a mission that continues 35 years later Washington, D.C. — The Alliance for Health Policy today remembers former Sen. John D. “Jay” Rockefeller IV (D-WV), a five-term senator who co-founded the organization in 1991 as the Alliance for Health Reform. Rockefeller died Friday in Washington, D.C., at age 89. Rockefeller’s was a life of service and included time with the Peace Corps in the Philippines and the VISTA program in Emmons, West Virginia. He went on to serve in state government, including two terms as the governor of West Virginia. In the Senate, he served on the Finance Committee. But for many members of Washington, D.C.’s health policy community, a lesser-known achievement is the most personal one. “Every week, I hear from a policy professional about how the programming Senator Rockefeller envisioned, championed, and made possible through the Alliance was instrumental in their career,” said Claire Sheahan, M.Sc., President and CEO of the Alliance for Health Policy. “Thirty-five years after Senator Rockefeller co-founded the organization with…
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